From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "C K Kashyap" <ckkashyap@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Booting vmlinux with GRUB on x86
Date: 07 May 2006 11:28:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73slnm420m.fsf@bragg.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <844f6ea60605052202i224bf7cew9018afa7e6959e11@mail.gmail.com>
"C K Kashyap" <ckkashyap@gmail.com> writes:
> Looks like kernel 2.6 generates a kernel that can be loaded by GRUB by
> just adding the multiboot signature...However, it does'nt quite work!
> ... Has anyone tried it? Just want to do away with the overhead of
> bzImage etc!!
bzImage has some real mode code that gets information from the BIOS
and passes it to the vmlinux (see Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt)
grub would need to pass this information first before it could execute
vmlinux directly.
There are also some more complications on x86-64: vmlinux currently
assumes it starts in 32bit protected mode, not 64bit.
-Andi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-07 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-06 5:02 Booting vmlinux with GRUB on x86 C K Kashyap
2006-05-06 13:48 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-09 5:52 ` C K Kashyap
2006-05-07 9:28 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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